UGT reinforced this Friday the need to improve the proposal to modify the labor legislation, recognizing that it constitutes a positive advance for the implementation of the Decent Work Agenda.
“Despite having had a change to the labor legislation, operating in 2018-2019, We went through very intense years that produced several changes very deep in the labor market”, said the executive secretary of the UGT, Carlos Alves, in the hearing on the legislative initiatives that are being considered in the working group “Changes in Labor Legislation in the field of the Decent Work Agenda ”.
The representative of the trade union center admitted that the bill under discussion has important changes, which translate “some balance and some logic”, and is a first step, but reinforced that it is necessary to go “further”, that is, in regards to precarious hiring that has “too much work to do”.
Carlos Alves reinforced the criticism of the “setbacks” of the Government before the withdrawal of the document of proposals that were planned, such as the increase in the value of overtime hours above 120 hours and the suspension of the validity periods of collective labor agreements.
This is the momentto change the labor legislation, defended the trade unionist, considering that the main problem of overtime is not being able to recover the value that existed before the troika.
“For many workers, and in many sectors, this change was one of those that, perhaps, in 2012 caused the most adverse impacts,” he said.
Carlos Alves warned about “worrying signs”, from the economic point of view, and insisted on the need for forceful measures to address the effects on employment, reaffirming that job insecurity must be “addressed in several dimensions”.
Source: Observadora
